horror films
Five Horror Villains You Actually Want to Succeed
Most horror movies follow a pretty tried-and-true formula: The villain is evil and their victims are good. We aren’t supposed to want the villain to win. We’re supposed to want them to be thwarted in ...
Six Horror Sequels With Subtle References You May Have Missed
Fans love to pick apart their favorite movies and franchises. There are threads upon threads of fan theories, some of them interesting, and some of them completely insane—but still interesting in some...
Horror Movie Locations That Shouldn’t Work (But Do)
As we’ve pointed out several times before, setting is everything in a horror film. It can completely shape the atmosphere. In times of oversaturation for the genre, though, you see a lot of the same l...
Surprising Early Jobs of Your Favorite Horror Movie Directors
Everybody starts somewhere, even your favorite horror directors. Getting into the industry is an incredibly hard thing to do. Nobody becomes a director, writer, producer, or scores any major position ...
Dead to Rights: Seven Rip-Offs That Rival The Original
Rip-offs are a huge part of the horror genre. That’s a fairly well known fact. As soon as something new and innovative comes along that changes the game and makes a ton of money, it kicks off a trend....
Seven of the Most Blatantly Obvious Halloween Rip-Offs
Halloween was not the first slasher movie, there’s no real point in arguing that. We had many similar efforts before it, notably films like Black Christmas, Psycho and Peeping Tom. But what Halloween ...
How Hellraiser: Bloodline Went From An Ambitious Franchise Saver To The Pin In The Coffin
The Hellraiser franchise has always been rocky. The first two movies are absolutely spectacular. Hellraiser III is a bit underrated, but not without its problems by any stretch. And then you have Hell...
Ernest Scared Stupid: A Look Back at the Campy Kiddie Horror (That Traumatized Me as a Child)
For anyone not familiar with the Ernest films, they were a comedy series aimed at children that presented a lovable idiot hick getting himself into increasingly baffling situation that simultaneously ...
Why C.H.U.D. is a Shockingly Environmentally Conscious Monster Movie
As a horror fan, you go into something like C.H.U.D. with certain expectations. There are always the films we know have something to say and watch with a deeper understanding of the themes and cultura...
